‘Grey’s Anatomy’ writer Elisabeth Finch apologizes for lying about cancer
On the day of the premiere of Peacock’s investigative docuseries “Anatomy of Lies” — which examines former “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Elisabeth Finch’s lengthy cancer fraud — she has offered something new: a full apology for her actions. In a post on Instagram, she begins by writing: “I have not given anyone any reason to believe a word I say. I have lied so much; things that have devastated so many people in real life. ‘I’m sorry’ feels like the smallest words compared to what I’ve done, yet they’re the truest.”
Finch writes that in years since the stories in the spring of 2022 The ankle boot And Vanity fair has exposed her many lies – and revealed that she is a con artist who got her job at ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ after lying about having chondrosarcoma, a rare form of cancer – she has been ‘receiving mental health treatment for almost three years, and I work It’s hard every day to live a life where the truth is more important than anything: the truth is that I married a woman with whom I fell deeply and truly in love.’ She goes on to talk about falling in love with Jennifer Beyer, a woman she met while they were both in treatment at a mental health facility in Arizona, concluding, “The biggest mistake of my life (besides lying about cancer in the first place) was saying ‘yes’ to Jennifer’s proposal before I was honest with her.”
“Anatomy of Lies,” directed by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall, paints a devastating portrait of Finch. The three-part docuseries debunks all her lies, especially that she had cancer, a ruse that involved shaving her head and simulating chemo treatments and their side effects. She also lied about being sexually harassed by a director of “The Vampire Diaries,” which she wrote about, about disposing of the remains of a friend killed in the 2018 Tree of Life massacre and about her brother’s death at the hands of suicide. Beyer, her now ex-wife, took part in the Peacock docuseries, as did two of her children.
In VarietyIn the interview with the docuseries directors published today, Peretz said: “We heard snippets of her contact with people who are still asking for jobs. We heard something is going on in her life.”
Maybe this post is trying to lead to that. Finch ends with this: “The truth is, there is no excuse, no justification – nothing will ever make my lies to anyone okay. Nothing erases the trauma I caused: the fear, the pain, the anger, the tears, the time. And nothing is more important to me than holding myself accountable in every way. I will continue to repair whatever damage I can and make sure I don’t do the worst things I have done. I realize this will all take time for people to believe it.”
